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Munkeymon posted:people who want to hasten the environmental collapse of california californias problem is that they are trying to farm in the desert. it has nothing to do with how much water almonds use. if you were to farm somewhere that was not a desert the water usage would be trivial.
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pointers posted:same, but being kind to other people I'm nice to everyone.
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Citizen Tayne posted:Every Fortune 500 company has a bunch of expensive domestic programmers. every company is a software company in one way or another. 
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Shaggar posted:californias problem is that they are trying to farm in the desert. it has nothing to do with how much water almonds use. if you were to farm somewhere that was not a desert the water usage would be trivial. before they built an office park on it, silicon valley used to be the most fertile farmland in the united states
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Mar 25, 2015 17:41
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Nagato posted:before they built an office park on it, silicon valley used to be the most fertile farmland in the united states more like silicon failey. haha.
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Mar 25, 2015 17:42
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Citizen Tayne posted:more like silicon failey. haha. 
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Nagato posted:before they built an office park on it, silicon valley used to be the most fertile farmland in the united states also that whole "temperate growing climate in the winter" thing coupled with "shitloads of sunlight" which means that you can buy tomatoes in january from the store
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Shaggar posted:californias problem is that they are trying to farm in the desert. it has nothing to do with how much water almonds use. if you were to farm somewhere that was not a desert the water usage would be trivial. the valley isn't desert you loving idiot 
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stop getting shaggared
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:the valley isn't desert you loving idiot overlay the drought map... desertification is a real thing hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Mar 25, 2015 |
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duTrieux. posted:build a pipe, send it all to us tbh when you combine the snowiest winter on record with there being no snow melt and relief in between storms, you'd be cranky too but if it were feasible to send you the melt so you can grow more almonds sure
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man this thread grew when I wasn't looking
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it is best not to look and just blindly post
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Shifty Pony posted:it is best not to look and just blindly post did i miss more pittsburghchat
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Nagato posted:before they built an office park on it, silicon valley used to be the most fertile farmland in the united states nobody's farming in silicon valley, though. instead they used that fertile farmland to build office parks for programmers to sit in while they ~disrupt~ agriculture a cursory look finds such wonderments as "databases, but for farmers", "excel charts, but for farmers", "weather forecasting, but for farmers", "wi-fi cloud-enabled soil sensors", "uber, but for tractors" and "hydroponic shipping containers for growing truly, with such innovations, there should be no trouble at all for californian farmers whose fields currently look like this: 
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Silicon Valley is like the size of a single family farm in the midwest. all of it.
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ayn rand hand job posted:did i miss more pittsburghchat no clue.
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didn't silicon valley get paved over with semiconductor and aerospace firms long before the software people took up shop? I mean, that's why it's called silicon valley, and uber-for-compost-bins didn't create those superfund sites. is the fertile-land footprint of SV much bigger now than it was in 1980?
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Subjunctive posted:didn't silicon valley get paved over with semiconductor and aerospace firms long before the software people took up shop? I mean, that's why it's called silicon valley, and uber-for-compost-bins didn't create those superfund sites. is the fertile-land footprint of SV much bigger now than it was in 1980? yes. the eugenicist inventor of the transistor laid down silicon valley's foundations in the 60's (?)
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Shifty Pony posted:lol all that does is let a shell company owned by a minority woman disabled veteran win the contract at a higher bid price then immediately subcontract it to megacorp contractor (mysteriously the same one every time) at higher than what the megacorp originally bid. same way for state contracts
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Beast of Bourbon posted:Silicon Valley is like the size of a single family farm in the midwest. all of it. santa clara county is 800,000 acres not big, but a lot bigger than any farm i've ever heard of
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Mar 25, 2015 19:47
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:santa clara county is 800,000 acres don't forget san mateo county, home of EA, oracle, and facebook
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the old santa clara valley was full of orchards but i don't know if it ever had many more conventional farms not sure if that's actually because of some sort of meaningful soil or climate difference, somebody should ask displeased moo cow
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when the tech bubble pops i think i will actually miss being able to type "uber for X" (where X is basically anything) into google and get a company name back. "uber for ambulances"? yep. "uber for airplanes"? you'd better believe it. "uber for tractors"? of loving course there is
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the TWC-Comcast merger is absolutely creating a monopoly and I have no idea why it was permitted.
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Citizen Tayne posted:the TWC-Comcast merger is absolutely creating a monopoly and I have no idea why it was permitted. it is not creating a new monopoly, friend. there are absolutely 0 places in america where anyone has a choice between time warner or comcast, that would be lost due to a merger. their service areas are entirely seperate.
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Citizen Tayne posted:the TWC-Comcast merger is absolutely creating a monopoly and I have no idea why it was permitted. america.
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Nintendo Kid posted:it is not creating a new monopoly, friend. hey remember when TWC and Comcast carved up acquired companies in such a way as to have separate non-competitive fiefdoms? I sure do!
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Citizen Tayne posted:hey remember when TWC and Comcast carved up acquired companies in such a way as to have separate non-competitive fiefdoms? I sure do! ah yes, cable competition, definitely a thing that really existed in america in a meaningful way ever
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Citizen Tayne posted:hey remember when TWC and Comcast carved up acquired companies in such a way as to have separate non-competitive fiefdoms? I sure do! remember when comcast wrote a letter to the fcc explaining that the merger should be allowed, and then our senators signed their names to it?
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Nintendo Kid posted:ah yes, cable competition, definitely a thing that really existed in america in a meaningful way ever if i still lived on the east side of pa i would totally have service electric
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:santa clara county is 800,000 acres don't get me wrong, san jose is a poo poo hole and it would be better off returning to orchards and farms and stuff, but like 3/4th of santa clara county is state parks.
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Citizen Tayne posted:the TWC-Comcast merger is absolutely creating a monopoly and I have no idea why it was permitted. just let att/verizon/comcast-twc combine and go back to the old att is the heavily regulated monopoly model i mean, the rate we're going it'll just be a lightly regulated single monopoly in a few years so...
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:I'd be ok with someone disrupting the printer industry, look at this poo poo HP makes all their money on toner. I sell enterprise software and managed print systems and lol that poo poo is so expensive theres like 250 points on it, its p sweet. Massive margins on oem toner Ask me about copiers printers n toner if u care And laserficheee
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Nintendo Kid posted:it is not creating a new monopoly, friend. pre-breakup att was not a monopoly because the bell operating companies didn't compete with each other --fishmech
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to be fair to hp theres also like $0.50 of electronics in there too as well as a $0.10 plastic case
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PCjr sidecar posted:pre-breakup att was not a monopoly because the bell operating companies didn't compete with each other in this case you have a choice between comcast and att or satellite in some areas
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omg are you people still talking about almonds
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PCjr sidecar posted:pre-breakup att was not a monopoly because the bell operating companies didn't compete with each other no, child. but post-breakup att was still 7 monopolies
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duTrieux. posted:omg are you people still talking about almonds the tech bubble isnt moving fast enough in a decent world the bougie bus would be taking off now, and someone would be coming up with an uber for sidewalks
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